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ACLU: Documents prove FBI flew surveillance planes during Baltimore (/Ferguson) riots
WBAL ^ | 10/30/15 | Kate Amara, George Lettis

Posted on 11/01/2015 3:11:32 AM PST by Libloather

BALTIMORE —The FBI was flying spy and surveillance planes over west Baltimore during the April riots.

Two surveillance planes were spotted flying over west Baltimore during the riots, circling for days.

"We've done it in Baltimore, we did it in Ferguson as well, as I recall," FBI Director James Comey told members of Congress this week.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland said Friday that it has obtained reams of documents through a Freedom of Information request from the FBI and the Federal Aviation Administration that detail the flights.

(Excerpt) Read more at wbaltv.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aclu; baltimore; baltimoreriots; fbi; riots; surveillance; surveillanceplanes
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"The American people need to know what kinds of surveillance technology are being deployed on us. We are not the enemy," said David Rocah, with the ACLU of Maryland.

If you're looting, yeah, ya kinda are.

1 posted on 11/01/2015 3:11:34 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Surveillance technology? So, if you weren’t using a handy or such...there’s no problem. Otherwise, they probably have 200,000 phone chats with Marvin telling Wanda that there’s free stuff at this riot or break-in. I don’t see what value this FBI-gathered material is. Go and try to present this in any Baltimore court...the judge will ask how you gathered it and the whole thing gets thrown out.


2 posted on 11/01/2015 3:16:24 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

Either the a##clown was checking up on the progress or he doesnt trust his “black” peeps


3 posted on 11/01/2015 3:18:54 AM PST by ronnie raygun (better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.)
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To: pepsionice
The FBI aircraft are mostly Cessna 182s, with tiny FLIR cameras on them. The use of such devices is clearly covered in existing law and legal precedence. Baltimore PD and MD State Police have nicer cameras on their helicopters.

This is all an attempt to stir up trouble by the ACLU. The reason the FBI operates the aircraft under shell companies is to hide the ownership from their usual surveillance targets, high end criminal organizations that do counter surveillance.

4 posted on 11/01/2015 3:22:51 AM PST by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Libloather

Hate to tell the ACLU, but the African criminals are the enemy of civilized people everywhere. The ACLU is also the enemy of American Patriots.


5 posted on 11/01/2015 3:22:52 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Libloather

So, looters have a right to loot in privacy? My country is insane!


6 posted on 11/01/2015 3:34:57 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The Democrat debate was audtiton to see who would wear the American jackboot. Ted Cruz)
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To: Libloather

Not very effective.


7 posted on 11/01/2015 4:02:05 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: The_Media_never_lie

So, looters have a right to loot in privacy? My country is insane!


The lunatics are running the asylum.


8 posted on 11/01/2015 4:03:44 AM PST by samtheman (I will build a great, great wall on our southern border... - DT)
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To: pepsionice

I think an aerial view of where crowds are gathering would be an invaluable real-time tactical advantage. My great-great-grandfather was a police Captain during the New York Draft riots in 1863, the few hundred lightly armed police were badly over matched by thousands of rioters, though they managed to somewhat limit their fury. After three days, Union troops fresh from Gettysburg arrived and fired indiscriminately into the crowds. The streets cleared. It was about this time the Bishop Carroll noticed that something was going on, and asked the faithful to be a little more discrete in their looting. Thus Bishop Carroll ended the New York draft riots.


9 posted on 11/01/2015 4:09:48 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Men need a reason to shop. Women need a place.)
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To: samtheman

Has not the message been received that these are 99% “Holder’s Peeps!”?

ACLU is about 93% for the destroyers of our culture and commonality. This is what makes it so extraordinary when they hit that 7% or so.


10 posted on 11/01/2015 4:11:08 AM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: Libloather

Yes, you are the enemy. I am overjoyed that LE used aircraft surveillance.


11 posted on 11/01/2015 4:58:14 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Libloather

Should have flown bombers and A-10s.


12 posted on 11/01/2015 4:59:20 AM PST by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware, a terminally ill US Marine is the most dangerous thing on earth.)
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To: Libloather

Rioting, shooting at people, looting and arson, that sounds like enemy activity. I’d think that the FBI was not doing its job if it wasn’t keeping an eye on what was going on in Ferguson and Baltimore.


13 posted on 11/01/2015 5:44:07 AM PST by euram
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well....... good

stores matter


14 posted on 11/01/2015 5:46:29 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump)
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To: Libloather

Some of the same types of people as the rioters were invited to Iran to hep the enemy, the BLM rioters across the nation encourage & support cop-killers, so yes, they are the enemy. They are preaching nothing short of sedition.


15 posted on 11/01/2015 6:08:43 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: euram

But did they do anything to stop the looting?


16 posted on 11/01/2015 7:00:43 AM PST by scrabblehack
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To: Libloather

When I was a young kid palling around with friends in 1950 on Amsterdam avenue in the (90th street area.There were some sporatic looting going on and the local Policman told us ,” we would be shot if we were pwrt of the looting”. Needless I never took part in any looting.
Nobody I Knew, did either
ACLU, are really bad People with confused goals.


17 posted on 11/01/2015 7:02:08 AM PST by chatham
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To: USNBandit

You couldn’t be more incorrect. This is military tech developed for use in Iraq. It is very sophisticated and I’m appalled it is being used here.


18 posted on 11/01/2015 7:20:34 AM PST by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
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To: Libloather
I'm pretty solidly against overly intrusive government surveillance, but when you're rioting you've kinda invented the government into your neighborhood.

My advice, don't riot.

19 posted on 11/01/2015 7:31:18 AM PST by dead ("I'm up to my eyeball in virgin goats!" - Mullah Omar)
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To: Libloather

Somehow I don’t have an issue with this under the circumstances.


20 posted on 11/01/2015 9:12:34 AM PST by EBH ( �I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.�)
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